sometimes i feel like people are practicing some kind of trickle-up progressivism, where they think if you can purify individual communities, if you can target the most visible symptoms of systemic inequality, that will make said inequality disappear, and, uh, it will not. I’m not saying you can’t criticize the small things, I’m just saying, like, identifying the actual source of a problem is important and we should probably…like…do that.
trickle-up progressivism
That’s such a perfect way to put it that I’m almost mad at how perfect it is. Like… that’s it, isn’t it? That’s the whole thing–and the enraging, self-sabotaging futility of the whole thing–in a nutshell.
Loki is the Philosopher King 